FEMA is not an elected body,
it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret
budget in the billions of dollars. It has more power than the President
of the United States or the Congress.

It has the power to suspend
laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant
and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies, transportation
systems, and can suspend the Constitution. Not only is it the most powerful
entity in the United States, but it was not even created under Constitutional
law by the Congress.

"With an investment of
eight hours one Monday in early October, Johanna Hadik of Margate got a
badge and the next day was out inspecting hurricane damage for the federal
government."

FEMA also acknowledges a long
history of fraud in disaster aid by applicants who call it "Christmas
money" or "free money" and by inspectors who are supposed
to prevent it. These inspectors consistently simply turn a blind eye because
often enough they are reaping
the benefits.

The Sentinel has also reported
on the fact that FEMA
employs as inspectors known criminals with records for embezzlement,
drug dealing and robbery. These people are entrusted to enter disaster victims'
homes and verify damage claims, with their histories, is it any wonder that
there is consistent fraud?

One such inspector with a criminal
record stated, "We're not all bad because we have criminal histories...We're
just the only ones they can get who will do this."

How is it that people with
criminal records are being employed by the government to manage the aftermath
of disasters?

The fact is that those that
are really in charge of FEMA are there through
political patronage and have no ability to do the job they are supposed
to.

"FEMA is widely viewed
as a 'dumping ground,' a turkey farm, if you will, where large numbers of
positions exist that can be conveniently and quietly filled by political
appointment," the preliminary report said. "This has led to a
situation where top officials, having little or no experience in disaster
or emergency management, are creating substantial morale problems among
careerists and professionals. "

The agency is corrupt from
top to bottom, consider the aftermath of Hurricane Frances in 2004:

As Hurricane Frances made landfall 100 miles north of
Miami-Dade County in September, a top official at the Federal Emergency
Management Agency declared the county a major disaster area with no evidence
of damage and contrary to a presidential order.

That decision allowed more than 12,000 Miami-Dade residents,
many with minimal or no damage, to collect $31 million and brought unprecedented
scrutiny to the federal disaster aid program. - Knight Ridder Newspapers

Also in 2004, up the Gulf Coast, FEMA was involved in
a mock drill called Hurricane
Pam, in which a hurricane with 120 mph winds topped the levies of
New Orleans. FEMA's chief representative at the drill was its regional director
at the time, Ron Castleman.

Castleman, had also been "promoted" to FEMA's
top brass after serving as chief administrative officer for the 2000 Bush-Cheney
campaign.

When the very real Hurricane Katrina struck last month,
Castleman had already moved on to a job in the private sector. Castleman
has stated that the action plan for such an event was definitely
NOT implemented after Katrina.

Why conduct drills of the levies breaking and then not
implement the action plan when it actually happens? No one is that incompetent.
AP has reported that current FEMA chief Michael Brown waited until
hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before doing
anything.

There can be no excuse of "we didn't see it coming"
this time around, FEMA is criminally negligent.

Yet as the reaction of Jefferson Parish President Aaron
Broussard shows, FEMA will be rewarded with more funding and it will gain
more authority. Brousaard wept as he asserted that FEMA has deliberately
withheld aid and cut communication lines but in the same breath he stated
that FEMA needs to be given the funding and power to do better job. withholding
aid and cutting communication lines is not "doing a bad job" it
is intentionally doing the opposite of what they are supposed to be doing.

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Regan,
Paul
Craig Roberts has stated that FEMA have made the crisis look worse
in order to empower the image of a police state emerging to "save the
day". He even insinuated that the shoot to kill policy was part of
the overall operation in order get an awful precedence set to aid the military
industrial complex takeover of America.

"The power of the Federal Government is now greater
than at any time, it'll never go back and the Posse Comitatus Act has been
eroding ever since it was passed in 1878..."

FEMA is actively
sabotaging the relief effort in New Orleans. Why would they do this?
Because FEMA is made up at the lower levels of petty criminals and people
with no training, whilst the elite infiltrators of the Federal Government
watch on from afar, in control of everything, answering to no one and getting
fat off the profits of their own corrupt inactivity which brought
about the situation in the first instance. They like it that way, it suits
them down to the ground, why should they do anything to improve the situation?